A nurse went blind in one eye after she left her daily contact lenses in for up to two weeks at a time. Mum-of-four Katie Carrington, 36, started wearing daily disposable lenses at age 17 and got into a bad habit of not taking them out after nights out. The nurse, from Romford, Essex, got worse - and was soon wearing the same lenses for weeks at a time, until she was rushed to hospital with "unbearable" pain in her eyes, in August 2025. She was left unable to see at all in her right eye and